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Usman Ghafoor
Usman Ghafoor

The writer is a staff member. He tweets @usmanghafoor

  • "You can’t label it as a ‘bad’ trend"

    "Main Dilli se hoon, bh#$ ch*~!" roars Saif Ali Khan’s character in last year’s Bollywood movie, Go Goa Gone . To great amusement of an...

  • Just how real is the ‘ban’?

    Just how real is the ‘ban’?

    The Motion Pictures Ordinance, 1979 makes no mention of it. The 1,209 ‘negative’ items listed in the Import Trade Policy 2012-13 do not...

  • Brief takes

    Brief takes

    What does it take to be a successful event manager/celebrity publicist? Jalal Salahuddin: Firstly, creativity, coupled with an incredible amount of...

  • "Making a film is like giving birth"

    Nandita Das’s is a curious case of an accomplished actor with a penchant for serious, issue-based films who, by her own admission, gravitated...

  • "At the end of the day, you are a story-teller"

    It is by no coincidence that Haissam Hussain, one of the present-day generation’s most stylish and successful TV drama producers, is a film...

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